Dear colleagues, I hope you and yours are holding up as well as possible in this endless endlessness. With apologies for cross-posting, I’m writing because my first book, *The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy* <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distance-cure%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank>*,* with a Foreword by John Durham Peters, is out today from MIT Press. *The Distance Cure *retells the history of therapy via its shadow form, teletherapy—a form that has now, for the last 18 months, overtaken the practice, becoming our default way of providing and receiving care. Starting with a discussion of Freud’s own use of letter-writing for analysis, through to radio broadcasts and call-in shows, suicide hotlines, the elusive quest to make an AI therapist, and e-therapy, the book culminates in a coda on our present moment and teletherapy during the pandemic and uprisings of last summer. There will also be some virtual, free public events in the near future: on August 19th, at Gray Room x City Lights <https://grayarea.org/event/the-distance-cure-book-launch/>, with Fred Turner; with Grace Lavery at The Strand Bookstore <https://www.strandbooks.com/events/event282?title=hannah_zeavin__grace_lavery_the_distance_cure> on August 23; in conversation with the artist Chloe Bass at the Brooklyn Public Library <https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/art-world-conference-virtual-20210831> on August 31; and at McNally Jackson with Dr. Orna Guralnik (of Showtime’s *Couples Therapy*) on September 2 <https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/hannah-zeavin-conversation-dr-orna-guralnik>. The book is available online on IndieBound <https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780262045926> and the American Booksellers Association's Bookshop <https://bookshop.org/books/the-distance-cure-a-history-of-teletherapy/9780262045926>. I've attached some of the advance praise below, and if you’d like to hear more about the book, I was recently interviewed by Adam Savage at San Francisco’s City Arts & Lectures <https://www.cityarts.net/event/the-distance-cure-a-history-of-teletherapy/>. Thanks so much for considering it. Warmly, Hannah Zeavin *Endorsements* The Distance Cure* is a work of pure brilliance. Hannah Zeavin is that rare scholar who connects past and future, distance and absence, external and internal, in compelling and vital ways. Too, she writes powerfully and lucidly about the complexities of psychotherapy, and its discontents. The result is arguably the most important book about the history of helping relationships, and the forms of communication on which they depend, in decades. Drop whatever you are doing and read this vital book: you will be better for it.* - Jonathan Metzl, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University; author of *Dying of Whiteness* *This book is a fascinating, groundbreaking history of therapy, told from the perspective of the communication technologies that have long enabled it. A must-read for all scholars of technology, health, and communication.* - Mar Hicks, Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology; author of *Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing* *In a world of over-mediated hyper-communication that has left us all feeling adrift and isolated, Zeavin's *The Distance Cure* gives us the history that we need to catch up with our future. Of course psychoanalysis, from the very beginning, played with the frame, with technology, with experimental configurations, to explore unknown, maybe even unknowable, forms of intimacy. We need to remember that this is possible—before amnesia sets in. Zeavin is ready to be your reminder.* - Jamieson Webster, author of *Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis* -- Dr. Hannah Zeavin Lecturer, UC Berkeley author of *The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distance-cure> *(MIT Press, 2021) zeavin.org